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Watershed Priorities

Photo: Matthew Maloney

Identifying the Needs of our Watershed

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Our restoration program has developed a list of priorities for each of the watersheds where we complete our habitat restoration work. To learn more about each specific sub-basin's priorities, please read through each of the dropdown menus below. For any questions related to these priorities, please contact Restoration Program Manager Mathias Perle.

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  • Restore a more natural hydrograph (i.e., increased summer streamflow).
  • Provide fish passage and screening at dams and/or diversions.
  • Protect and restore a healthy stream corridor (including protection and/or restoration of wetlands, in-stream habitat, riparian and floodplain areas).
  • Provide fish passage and screening at dams and/or diversions, primarily on tributaries.
  • Protect and restore a healthy stream corridor (including protection and/or restoration of wetlands, in-stream habitat, riparian and floodplain areas).
  • Reduce summer water temperature on Lake Creek.

Upstream of the City of Bend

  • Restore a more natural hydrograph (i.e., increased winter streamflow and decreased summer streamflow).
  • Protect and restore a healthy stream corridor (including protection and/or restoration of wetlands, in-stream habitat, riparian and floodplain areas).

City of Bend Area

  • Protect and restore a healthy stream corridor (including protection and/or restoration of wetlands, in-stream habitat, riparian and floodplain areas).
  • Manage stormwater to reduce pollutant inputs into the Deschutes River.
  • Restore fish passage at the existing dams.

Little Deschutes

  • Restore a more natural hydrograph (i.e., increased winter streamflow and decreased summer streamflow).
  • Protect and restore a healthy stream corridor (including protection and/or restoration of wetlands, in-stream habitat, and riparian and floodplain areas).

Middle Deschutes

  • Restore a more natural hydrograph (i.e., increased summer streamflow).